Sourij H, Aziz F, Bräuer A, et al. - Researchers aimed at ascertaining the predictors of in‐hospital mortality in people with prediabetes and diabetes hospitalized for COVID‐19 infection. In addition, they developed a risk score for determining those at the highest risk of a fatal outcome. At 10 sites in Austria, they performed a combined prospective and retrospective, multicentre, cohort study in 247 people with diabetes or newly diagnosed prediabetes who were hospitalized with COVID‐19. Findings revealed that people with diabetes exhibit numerically higher in‐hospital mortality (26.7%) for COVID‐19 compared with those with prediabetes (14.9%) but without statistical significance. A risk score using five routinely available patient variables, namely age, arterial occlusive disease, C‐reactive protein, estimated glomerular filtration rate and aspartate aminotransferase levels at admission, demonstrated excellent predictive performance for assessing in‐hospital mortality.